From BBC : Farnborough Air Show shows off new aircraft, and the focus falls to engine makers If new and more efficient engines are produced, then it's a step in the right direction for the...schedule will remain the same: Double-length features on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and a regular post Sundays. Thank you all for your understanding, and apologies that it's been so long
The Senate passed the FISA Admendment Act , 69-28, which included immunity for telecoms who broke the law and helped the Bush Admin spy on Americans. From the roll call : McCain was a no vote Obama voted for the bill Clinton voted against it ...as for my Senators: Feinstein voted for it Boxer voted against it
...org/blogs/video/79602/ It is written there, to the side: "During the speech, Bush once again criticized the American public for failing to fully appreciate the patriotic sacrifices of the nation's telecoms: "Companies that may have helped us save lives should be thanked for their patriotic service, not subjected to billion-dollar lawsuits that would make them less willing to help in the future.""...
...set to expire in February 2008. Congress recently spent a lot of effort trying to renew it, but the retroactive immunity has become a sticking point. Bush and his cronies say that without it, the telecoms will be afraid to help the government with this stuff in the future (never mind the fact that if they just got the FISA court to review it, it's very easy to get a warrant and then the telecoms...
Dysfunctional State of the Union In light of recent and previous cave-ins by the wussiecrat majority in congress, we should all, by now, be disabused of any notions of political hope. But I have...the Berlin airlift, indeed, had set foot on the goddamn moon. And then you wake up. Tim Hollis To Iniquity, and Beyond: News from a lunatic-infested dirt clod www.hubpages.com/hub/iniquity
... ECJ Judgments This week the ECJ issued four Judgments in the following cases: T-Mobile, 3G and others in Austria; Hutchison and others in the UK; JP Morgan Claverhouse; and Planzer Luxembourg Sàrl Telecoms The T-Mobile and Hutchison cases dealt with whether there was any VAT to recover on the licence fees paid by the mobile phone companies for licences to operate 3G services. The ECJ ruled...
The Motorola phonebook: has anyone at Motorola ever used this piece of crap? It is the most hilariously bad thing of its kind I have seen. Otherwise, the PEBL is pretty cool, though it's missing proper... I'm glad hex-editing is the norm for customization: http://xlr8.us/hofo/map.txt It was pretty cheap, just to tide me over with quad-band until I can get a usefully programmed phone ( http://openmoko.org/ )
What exactly is Net Neutrality? You can watch a short (2 minute) video explaining the problem over on my other blog, then come back here. I'll be waiting for you. (waiting) (Still waiting) (growing...- free and open communication. Contacting your representative is the least you can do. In just a minute you can do just that, and find out about what else you can do by clicking the link below.
Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill Apr 10 3:08 PM US/Eastern Email this story KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered...official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.
